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Stipple   Listen
verb
Stipple  v. t.  (past & past part. stippled; pres. part. stippling)  
1.
To engrave by means of dots, in distinction from engraving in lines. "The interlaying of small pieces can not altogether avoid a broken, stippled, spotty effect."
2.
To paint, as in water colors, by small, short touches which together produce an even or softly graded surface.


noun
Stippling, Stipple  n.  (Engraving)
1.
A mode of execution which produces the effect by dots or small points instead of lines.
2.
(Paint.) A mode of execution in which a flat or even tint is produced by many small touches.





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"Stipple" Quotes from Famous Books



... heavy. A neutral tint of grey or brown is easy for a beginner to manage, and a warm red-brown is admirable for the purpose. A soft blue sky with fleecy-white clouds makes the best background for a fair girl in a white dress. Wash in the background colour to the desired strength, then stipple it ...
— Little Folks (December 1884) - A Magazine for the Young • Various
... was not a collector—that means dividends and bank balances—he had a passion for the Past and all its belongings, with a virtuoso's knowledge of them. A fan painted by Vanloo, a bit of rare Nankin (he had caught from Charles Lamb the love of old china), or an undoctored stipple of Bartolozzi, gave him delight in the handling, though he might not aspire to ownership. I believe he would willingly have drunk any horrible decoction from a silver teapot of Queen Anne's time. These ...
— Ponkapog Papers • Thomas Bailey Aldrich


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